Population-level variation in enhancer expression identifies disease mechanisms in the human brain.
Nat Genet
; 54(10): 1493-1503, 2022 10.
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ABSTRACT
Identification of risk variants for neuropsychiatric diseases within enhancers underscores the importance of understanding population-level variation in enhancer function in the human brain. Besides regulating tissue-specific and cell-type-specific transcription of target genes, enhancers themselves can be transcribed. By jointly analyzing large-scale cell-type-specific transcriptome and regulome data, we cataloged 30,795 neuronal and 23,265 non-neuronal candidate transcribed enhancers. Examination of the transcriptome in 1,382 brain samples identified robust expression of transcribed enhancers. We explored gene-enhancer coordination and found that enhancer-linked genes are strongly implicated in neuropsychiatric disease. We identified expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) for both genes and enhancers and found that enhancer eQTLs mediate a substantial fraction of neuropsychiatric trait heritability. Inclusion of enhancer eQTLs in transcriptome-wide association studies enhanced functional interpretation of disease loci. Overall, our study characterizes the gene-enhancer regulome and genetic mechanisms in the human cortex in both healthy and diseased states.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Locos de Características Quantitativas
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Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Nat Genet
Assunto da revista:
GENETICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos